Title: Vengeance in Reverse : The Tangled Loops of Violence, Myth, and Madness
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1611862388
ISBN 13: 9781611862386
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Weight: 0.5 pounds

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How do humans stop fighting? Where do the gods of myth come from? What does it mean to go mad? Likening gift exchange to vengeance in reverse, Mark R. Anspach outlines a fresh approach to reciprocity and traces the emergence of transcendence in collective myths and individual delusions. From the peacemaking rituals of pre-state societies to the paradoxical structure of consciousness, Anspach takes the reader on an intellectual roller-coaster ride that begins with the problem of how to deceive violence and ends with the riddle of how one can deceive oneself.

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Mark R. Anspach is an anthropologist and social theorist whose writings have appeared in nine languages. He is affiliated with the LIAS research team at the Institut Marcel Mauss, �cole des Hautes �tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

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